The Hard Material of Blockchain Art
Artists, not financiers, are revealing what blockchains really are.
The Hard Material of Blockchain Art
Artists, not financiers, are revealing what blockchains really are.

Clay, Papyrus, and Blockchains
Long before blockchains, humanity faced the same question we do today. Do you carve your words into clay tablets that will outlast empires, or write them on papyrus scrolls that can travel the world but crumble with time? That choice between permanence and portability, durability and speed, is the same one confronting builders in the digital age. When you decide whether to build on a blockchain or on the web and cloud, you are not just making a tec...

Clay, Papyrus, and Blockchains
Long before blockchains, humanity faced the same question we do today. Do you carve your words into clay tablets that will outlast empires, or write them on papyrus scrolls that can travel the world but crumble with time? That choice between permanence and portability, durability and speed, is the same one confronting builders in the digital age. When you decide whether to build on a blockchain or on the web and cloud, you are not just making a tec...

We Dreamed in Pixels
How Millennial Nostalgia Is Rewriting the Future of Technology

We Dreamed in Pixels
How Millennial Nostalgia Is Rewriting the Future of Technology

The Cultural Operating System
It started with a question I asked Jacob Horne during an AMA last week. > What is the endgame for what we're all building here? Is it hyperstructures? What comes after? Jacob replied: > Endgame for what we are all building in crypto: better hive mind operating system. aka how we all coordinate at a societal level. That stuck with me. A better hive mind operating system. Not in the sci-fi dystopia sense, but in the very human sense. A shared memory. A way to coordinate. A way to know things to...

The Cultural Operating System
It started with a question I asked Jacob Horne during an AMA last week. > What is the endgame for what we're all building here? Is it hyperstructures? What comes after? Jacob replied: > Endgame for what we are all building in crypto: better hive mind operating system. aka how we all coordinate at a societal level. That stuck with me. A better hive mind operating system. Not in the sci-fi dystopia sense, but in the very human sense. A shared memory. A way to coordinate. A way to know things to...

Social Is the Missing Interface
A new model for how we interact with the internet, and why we’ve been building in the wrong direction.

Social Is the Missing Interface
A new model for how we interact with the internet, and why we’ve been building in the wrong direction.